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Title: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on September 14, 2007, 06:05:49 AM
(http://cityrag.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/klee_irwin.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on September 14, 2007, 07:23:25 AM
(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/eminem_01.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Chris L on September 14, 2007, 08:29:09 AM
(http://chud.com/nextraimages/faceincrowd_screen%20(4).jpg)
(http://www.impossiblefunky.com/images/archives/issue_7/warren.jpg)
(http://www.bobharris.com/images/stories/Sopranos/membersonly2.jpg)
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/proceed.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on September 14, 2007, 09:35:59 AM
Der Kommissar & my failed attempt at depicting a zombie Super Dave and his parasitic toup' in MS paint.
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1332/1379766907_ada1c1a215_o.jpg)
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1337/1377581683_675aa23d48_o.jpg)

both very shady indeed.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: PatrickChew on September 14, 2007, 10:32:10 AM
(http://www.script-o-rama.com/blog/shifty.gif)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: KickTheBobo on September 14, 2007, 11:15:42 AM
Rick Aviles
1952 - 1995

(http://kickthebobo.com//Rick_Aviles.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on September 14, 2007, 02:04:49 PM
(http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/mo/premiere_photo/20051212/16/1795334278.jpg)
Rachel Evan Wood.

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on September 14, 2007, 02:18:57 PM
(http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/mo/premiere_photo/20051212/16/1795334278.jpg)
Rachel Evan Wood.



Raleigh, NC in the hizzouse.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Omar on September 14, 2007, 02:22:40 PM

Rachel Evan Wood imagery.



Recent Rachel Evan (sic) Wood is very shady.  Her work in the television series Once and Again remains masterful, though.  I will ignore her recent transformation into an absinthe-guzzling, M. Manson-writhing weirdo.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on September 14, 2007, 02:26:29 PM
Oops.  It's Evan Rachel, not Rachel Evan.  Darn google had her listed both ways.
Oh sure, she's talented, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't stab you in your sleep.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: John Junk on September 14, 2007, 08:49:01 PM

Rachel Evan Wood imagery.



Recent Rachel Evan (sic) Wood is very shady.  Her work in the television series Once and Again remains masterful, though.  I will ignore her recent transformation into an absinthe-guzzling, M. Manson-writhing weirdo.

Is that who the guy is in this video?
I thought it was the fashion guy from Hollywood Extra or Entertainment Tonight! or whatever doing a Flock of Seagulls cover.  I'm real sorry that their blood-sprinkler won't shut off.  I think he's screaming because it's ruining his bedspread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX1fqMGQWtI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX1fqMGQWtI)

by the way, the end of this video made me laugh out loud for real.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on September 14, 2007, 09:05:29 PM
That dude has no talent.

Who wrote that backing track?  "Happy" Robert Smith, circa 1989?

If that was all America's parents had to be frightened about, they weren't really trying.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: GetOffMyBone on September 15, 2007, 02:56:05 PM
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0975599518.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on September 21, 2007, 01:41:36 PM
[youtube=425,350]dVcja09LoQQ[/youtube]
Firestarter
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: rootdoc (not my real name) on September 21, 2007, 02:24:46 PM
[youtube=425,350]dVcja09LoQQ[/youtube]
Firestarter

So did he do it?  I'm so intrigued!!!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: PatrickChew on September 21, 2007, 04:05:51 PM
[youtube=425,350]dVcja09LoQQ[/youtube]
Firestarter

Wait, why was Eugene Mirman playing Eric Wareheim playing an ass-kicking arsonist?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: John Junk on September 21, 2007, 05:52:38 PM
...that's what I call goin' by the book.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: rootdoc (not my real name) on September 21, 2007, 08:26:02 PM
[youtube=425,350]dVcja09LoQQ[/youtube]
Firestarter

Wait, why was Eugene Mirman playing Eric Wareheim playing an ass-kicking arsonist?

NICE!!  I thought the same thing.  I can't wait for those guys to do a real dramatic role!!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Fido on September 22, 2007, 02:05:20 PM
(http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/06/cheney.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Laurie on September 26, 2007, 09:25:41 AM
This dude:

(http://www.nga.ch/sits/Jazz%20Gallery/J.%20Vocal%20Frames/images/Aaron%20Neville%201.jpg)

Also, this lady:

(http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviews/reading/4/csword/carmen.gif)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: jed on September 26, 2007, 10:42:55 AM

Also, this lady:

(http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviews/reading/4/csword/carmen.gif)

Where  in the world is she?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on September 26, 2007, 06:43:48 PM
(http://mtvgames.typepad.com/mtv_video_games_blog/images/2007/04/03/billy_mitchell_approves_his_hot_sau.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: chrisfoll577 on September 27, 2007, 10:39:17 AM
(http://crotchetyoldbastard.com/Image/ahmadinejad.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Fido on September 28, 2007, 11:04:00 PM
(http://crotchetyoldbastard.com/Image/ahmadinejad.jpg)

yup, that guy's shady.  really shady.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: John Junk on September 29, 2007, 06:05:06 PM
Great style, though.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on October 16, 2007, 12:06:04 AM
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2417/1583360563_0984d6be2c_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on October 16, 2007, 12:31:24 AM
Jamie Lee Curtis reading her book "Today I Feel Silly" to children.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2115/1584421948_c8195d1736.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2405/1583536099_d1f7013859.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on October 16, 2007, 11:30:42 AM
At the end of the reading, does she eat the children?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on October 22, 2007, 03:57:00 AM
Jamie Lee Curtis reading her book "Today I Feel Silly" to children.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2115/1584421948_c8195d1736.jpg)
"Today I feel silly! That's right, SILLY! OK?!  Don't fuck with me!"


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2405/1583536099_d1f7013859.jpg)
"Trust me, you little fuckers do not want to know how silly I feel today."
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: KickTheBobo on October 22, 2007, 03:44:41 PM
(http://kickthebobo.com//JLCurtis.gif)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Stan on October 22, 2007, 08:21:22 PM
(http://kickthebobo.com//JLCurtis.gif)/center
FOOD!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Oogie on November 05, 2007, 05:41:33 PM
I've never trusted Burt Reynolds.

(http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/Myotis/bandito.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: John Junk on November 05, 2007, 06:13:56 PM
Gross.  That picture is in the palette of mustard, ketchup, and skidmarks.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on November 12, 2007, 08:21:07 AM

I've never trusted Jeff Goldblum.

(http://www.borkowski.co.uk/archives/celebrity/lisa_marie3.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Emily on November 12, 2007, 01:02:37 PM
he seems a little more "sandy" than "shady" to me.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on November 12, 2007, 02:32:03 PM
Ohhhh, I hope that the photographer only took one picture and managed to capture only that one moment.  And no others immediately preceding it or following it.

Please?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: jane on November 12, 2007, 11:19:54 PM
Buff, don't forget, photo stylists have a way of tricking the eye by creating a myriad of illusions with the use of simple tools and materials. 
That foam surging to meet Jeff Goldblum's little friend may not be the vanillabean milkshake matter we think it is, but rather some sort of mashed potato, carpenter's glue concoction. 


I've never trusted Jeff Goldblum.

(http://www.borkowski.co.uk/archives/celebrity/lisa_marie3.jpg)

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Josh on November 13, 2007, 01:45:07 AM

I've never trusted Jeff Goldblum.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wct9u6-kCY[/youtube]
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: erika on November 13, 2007, 08:37:39 AM
(http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061003/061003_gibson_vmed_1230p.widec.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on November 13, 2007, 09:47:20 AM
You're scaring me, Janey.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on November 13, 2007, 06:34:20 PM
(http://cinema-online.org/pictures/Stills/Upcoming/August%20Rush/02.jpg)
From the forthcoming movie August Rush.  From what I can tell from the trailer, it's like Searching for Bobby Fischer but with bad guitar music instead of chess.
Instead of Laurence Fishburne as the crusty but loveable homeless mentor, this kid spends all of his free time running around with... OH DEAR GOD.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on December 08, 2007, 04:06:56 PM
(http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/law/12/08/cia.videotapes/t1home.1517.hayden.ap.file.jpg)
Michael Hayden would scare the crap out of me even if he wasn't The Director of the CIA.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: John Junk on December 08, 2007, 04:33:07 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X0J3JCE7L._AA240_.jpg)

A lot of it has to do with the sneakers.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on December 08, 2007, 06:47:16 PM
(http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/law/12/08/cia.videotapes/t1home.1517.hayden.ap.file.jpg)
Michael Hayden would scare the crap out of me even if he wasn't The Director of the CIA.


TAKE ME TO YOUR LEA<bzzzzt>DER
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Tim K in DC on December 09, 2007, 03:08:03 AM
(http://cinema-online.org/pictures/Stills/Upcoming/August%20Rush/02.jpg)
From the forthcoming movie August Rush.  From what I can tell from the trailer, it's like Searching for Bobby Fischer but with bad guitar music instead of chess.
Instead of Laurence Fishburne as the crusty but loveable homeless mentor, this kid spends all of his free time running around with... OH DEAR GOD.

Caption-wise, I also would have accepted: "From the forthcoming movie Shadey."
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Ason on December 09, 2007, 03:08:19 AM
MMA fight
Clay Guida vs. Roger Huerta

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=23615136


Clay Guida is like the living embodiment of a Wurster character

(http://media.ufc.tv/i.cfc?method=get&s=C63AD0BA-1422-0E8C-9AAB9FA69D91C7BA.jpg&rs=65&q=75&x=86&y=1&w=90&h=120&ro=0)
(http://www.fightlinker.com/pics/huertaguida.gif)

kinda looks like a roided out Wurster
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on December 23, 2007, 08:38:28 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/gofugyourself/GFY092007/77299120.jpg)
 :o
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on January 24, 2008, 07:19:18 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v98/lengli/dr_phil.jpg)      (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2091/2215811231_78a540cc25.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on January 24, 2008, 09:06:20 AM
I never realized how much he looks like the guy in Scanners whose head exploded.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sarah on January 24, 2008, 10:35:43 AM
(http://sci-fi-online.50megs.com/2006_Interviews/06-11-06_MichaelIronside_01.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on January 24, 2008, 10:48:01 AM
Nope, that's not the one
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on January 24, 2008, 10:48:26 AM
Michael Ironside = Powers Boothe = John Saxon = Terry O'Quinn

Can't get one?  Pick any one of the others!  No one will know the difference!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sarah on January 24, 2008, 10:52:04 AM
Oh well.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on January 30, 2008, 12:21:02 AM
(http://img.fannation.com/images/ap/2008/01/24/15/200801241522553245827-p2-210x210.jpg)
Scariest smile ever?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on February 28, 2008, 03:42:35 PM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2298212083_da143e559f_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Spoony on February 28, 2008, 04:31:49 PM
Buff, don't forget, photo stylists have a way of tricking the eye by creating a myriad of illusions with the use of simple tools and materials. 
That foam surging to meet Jeff Goldblum's little friend may not be the vanillabean milkshake matter we think it is, but rather some sort of mashed potato, carpenter's glue concoction. 


I've never trusted Jeff Goldblum.

(http://www.borkowski.co.uk/archives/celebrity/lisa_marie3.jpg)


If that's the case, then someone should check on Jeff. They might have left him stuck there.

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dan B on February 29, 2008, 04:34:29 PM
(http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/9329/losthighway2pa5.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on March 01, 2008, 02:53:18 PM
(http://img.fannation.com/images/ap/2008/02/29/15/200802291515549026427-p2-210x210.jpg)
George and Hank Steinbrenner
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on March 01, 2008, 06:58:55 PM
(http://img.fannation.com/images/ap/2008/02/29/15/200802291515549026427-p2-210x210.jpg)
George and Hank Steinbrenner

Hank Steinbrenner is the latest in a series of increasingly humilatingly stupid sports owners and owners to be.

If I ever get really rich, I'm cutting off my kids with NOTHING.  I will withdraw all my cash and barge myself out in the middle of Jordan Lake and burn it all.

Seriously.  The world has enough assholes.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: chrisfoll577 on March 04, 2008, 07:29:53 AM
as a red sox fan, i'm hoping hank steinbrenner turns out to be a hybrid of all the worst characteristics of his father and his spoiled rich kid counterpart, knicks owner jim dolan of j.d. & the straight shot (http://www.myspace.com/jdandthestraightshot).

(http://www.stopmikelupica.com/sml/James%20Dolan.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on April 06, 2008, 03:48:12 AM
(http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/CRIME/04/05/texas.ranch/art.barlow.mugshot.jpg)

 Prevert standoff escalates! (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/05/texas.ranch/index.html)

Is El Dorado far from Waco?  This might be the wrong time to be thinking about Tom's royalties, but still...
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Josh on April 13, 2008, 10:09:47 AM
(http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/0411/15851313.jpg)


Parents Fight Over Which Gang Toddler Should Join (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15851207/detail.html?taf=den#)
Police: Mother A Crip, Father A Westside Baller

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.
On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.
After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home.
 
His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.
"They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would 'claim,'" Sandoval said.
Manzanares was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, and domestic violence. He was transported to the Adams County Detention Facility.
On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentenced to a year of probation. The misdemeanor harassment charge was dropped.

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: rootdoc (not my real name) on April 15, 2008, 10:30:57 AM
(http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/0411/15851313.jpg)


Parents Fight Over Which Gang Toddler Should Join (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15851207/detail.html?taf=den#)
Police: Mother A Crip, Father A Westside Baller

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.
On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.
After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home.
 
His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.
"They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would 'claim,'" Sandoval said.
Manzanares was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, and domestic violence. He was transported to the Adams County Detention Facility.
On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentenced to a year of probation. The misdemeanor harassment charge was dropped.



I think the obvious choice is the Westside Ballers gang.  The title has less prestige, but they seem to promote physical activity which in today's society is severely lacking.

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on April 17, 2008, 03:20:44 PM
Right, but the Crips have a longer and more storied tradition.  If they can get him in the Crips now, he has a much better chance of getting into a good prison gang when he gets older.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: gravy boat on April 17, 2008, 03:23:39 PM
the ballers were my safety.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: todd on April 17, 2008, 04:05:25 PM
Westside Ballers have a shitty dental plan. Crips fo life.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Spoony on April 19, 2008, 01:26:12 PM
The Gold Teeth Dental plan? Yes, their Cobra plan is very credible.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Spoony on April 19, 2008, 01:27:17 PM
And by Cobra plan, I mean their rivals, the Cobra Gang.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on April 19, 2008, 04:30:27 PM
The Crips won't even read my son's essay until he passes the firearms test AND lets eight guys beat the crap out of him.
The application CLEARLY STATED that the beating was part of orientation, NOT part of the preliminary screening.

My wife is very upset by this - The Crips will be hearing from my attorney.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on May 09, 2008, 09:36:20 PM
(http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/CRIME/05/09/queen.judge.ap/art.halverson.file.jpg)

"Judge allegedly napped, made baliff rub her feet" (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/09/queen.judge.ap/index.html)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on May 09, 2008, 11:47:42 PM
(http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/US/05/09/admiral.affair/art.stufflebeem.gi.jpg)

A Navy admiral engaged in sexual relations in the White House in 1990 with a federal employee whom he falsely told he was a widower (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/09/admiral.affair/index.html)       

The sex in the White House part, I say go for it.  Who hasn't fontasized about doing it while the Secret Service watches on closed-circuit television?
But telling the lady your wife is dead when she's not?  That is something special.

You, Rear Admiral Stufflebeem, are as shady as your name is hilarious. 
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: emma on May 10, 2008, 09:50:38 AM
(http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/US/05/09/admiral.affair/art.stufflebeem.gi.jpg)
Rear Admiral Stufflebeem

He names just like he pictures!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Laurie on May 10, 2008, 10:17:55 AM
(http://www.enchantedenlightenment.com/extras/Enchanted_Pics/image001.gif)

"Psychic" Sylvia Browne.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zKyzBe0CA2Q
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on May 10, 2008, 10:45:47 AM
I don't know how much this has been covered in America (I'm guessing not a whole lot), but this story has been front page news, with good reason, all over Europe for a couple of weeks now. It's horrifying on so many levels, and the scope and details are beyond gruesome. It's one of those cases where, when media asks psychologists and the like for an explanation, they're simply stumped. What's also interesting about this story is how Austria is seemingly gaining momentum in the Most Fucked-Up People In Europe race, which Belgium has been the undisputed leader of for the past ten years or so.

And the guy couldn't be more shady.

(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44606000/jpg/_44606762_joseffafp226b.jpg)

BBC on Josef Fritzl: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7371959.stm)

Quote
The story of Josef Fritzl, the man believed to have imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her seven children, has been described as one of the worst cases in Austria's criminal history.

[...]

The picture that emerges is of a man who led a double life. In public he appeared to be a respectable member of the community, living in Amstetten with his wife Rosemarie, with whom he had seven grown-up children.

But DNA tests have confirmed he had a second, secret family with his daughter Elisabeth, whom police say he lured into a cellar, aged 18, in 1984 and raped repeatedly.

She gave birth to seven children, three of whom he and Rosemarie adopted or fostered. Three children remained in the cellar with their mother.


Police say Mr Fritzl has also confessed to burning the body of a seventh child shortly after it died in infancy.

[...]

Mr Mayer says his client claims he locked Elisabeth up in order to protect her from the outside world: "She did not obey any rules, she hung around in dodgy bars all night and drank and smoked," Mr Fritzl was quoted as saying.

Mr Fritzl said that he started preparing the cellar dungeon "around 1981 or 1982".

"The cellar in my building belonged to me and me alone. It was my kingdom, that only I had access to. Everyone who lived there knew it," he said.

More on Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Fritzl)

Quote
Due to their lack of exposure to sunlight, the former captives are extremely pale and cannot endure natural light. The captives all have vitamin D deficiencies and are anaemic. They are likely to have underdeveloped immune systems, although it is yet to be determined whether their immune systems have suffered permanent damage. Due to the low ceilings, Stefan walks with a permanent hunch and Kerstin is described as having a "cramped physical posture". The youngest child prefers to crawl, although he can walk.

The children communicate with each other through a combination of speech and animal sounds, including growling and cooing, while the concentration required to make themselves intelligible to others appears to have an exhausting effect. Elisabeth is reported to appear far older than her 42 years. The oldest, Kerstin, currently hospitalized, has lost most of her teeth.

Have a great weekend, everybody!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Laurie on May 10, 2008, 11:17:20 AM
Happy Mother's Day!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Chris L on May 10, 2008, 11:20:09 AM
It's made news over here as well (how could it not?).  I'm not sure how much cable news has jumped on it.  
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on May 10, 2008, 11:44:55 AM
It's made news over here as well (how could it not?).  I'm not sure how much cable news has jumped on it. 

When I visited friends in Brooklyn recently, the TV was on pretty much all the time, tuned only to news channels like MSNBC and CNN, and I don't recall one single news item from outside the US in almost a week. Still, that might not be representative of media as a whole, so I'm sorry I made that assumption.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Chris L on May 10, 2008, 12:01:46 PM
When I visited friends in Brooklyn recently, the TV was on pretty much all the time, tuned only to news channels like MSNBC and CNN

What, no Fox?  They might have covered it if only to gloat that it didn't happen in the US.

I've been reading about the story online at least.  We've got a secret Muslim with a crazy pastor running for president, so naturally cable news' attention is elsewhere at the moment. 
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sarah on May 10, 2008, 12:45:04 PM
I like the caption to Frizl's photo:  "Mr Fritzl is described as domineering and authoritarian."  Really?

Your post made me laugh, Laurie.  Thank you.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on May 10, 2008, 01:57:26 PM
You guys sucked all the fun out of my Rear Admiral Stufflebeem post.  I hope you're happy.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Stan on May 10, 2008, 02:06:33 PM
You guys sucked all the fun out of my Rear Admiral Stufflebeem post.  I hope you're happy.

 Someone in the White House sucked all the fun out of Admiral Shufflebeam. It wasn't us.
















*rimshot*
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on May 10, 2008, 07:55:33 PM
(http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/CRIME/05/09/queen.judge.ap/art.halverson.file.jpg)

"Judge allegedly napped, made baliff rub her feet" (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/09/queen.judge.ap/index.html)

Oh, I recommend reading this one all the way through.  Everyone involved sounds awful.  But the main character is definitely the star:

"Halverson did not respond to an interview request. A shirtless man who answered the door at her home pointed to a "no trespassing" sign and ordered a reporter off the property. The yard is clean these days, after the city cited Halverson for leaving it strewn with junk and letting the water in her pool grow murky and stagnant."
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Emily on May 10, 2008, 09:20:18 PM

 Someone in the White House sucked all the fun out of Admiral Shufflebeam. It wasn't us.


maybe it was this lady:


(http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/CRIME/05/09/queen.judge.ap/art.halverson.file.jpg)


 (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/09/queen.judge.ap/index.html)


(sorry)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on May 11, 2008, 09:30:25 PM
Speaking of Belgium, and underreported stories, has anyone noticed that the country's about to dissolve into factions of Walloons and Flemish any second now?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on May 12, 2008, 04:14:28 AM
Yeah, there's a lot of tension there, has been for years. The fact that the Belgian national identity/character is so messed up, due to all the various serial killer-pedophilia-corruption scandals during the nineties and onward, doesn't exactly help matters.

The whole situation was bizarrely brought to light by a very ambitious TV prank in 2006 (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1570141,00.html).
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Denim Gremlin on May 12, 2008, 05:40:26 AM
Speaking of Belgium, and underreported stories, has anyone noticed that the country's about to dissolve into factions of Walloons and Flemish any second now?

what is this a Dr Seuss book?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Phantom Hugger on May 14, 2008, 06:40:14 PM
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m1/theimann/whokilledobama.jpg)

http://gothamist.com/2008/03/21/who_killed_obam.php

Quote
Fashion designer Doron Braunshtein, aka Apollo Braun, whose store on Orchard Street has been selling T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with the question 'Who Killed Obama?' says the people leaving him angry messages and death threats just don't get hipster irony. See, he loves Obama, that's why he's selling products that invoke his murder!

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on May 14, 2008, 06:47:26 PM
Bleargh.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Gagneaux on May 15, 2008, 12:02:05 PM
(http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m1/theimann/whokilledobama.jpg)

http://gothamist.com/2008/03/21/who_killed_obam.php

Quote
Fashion designer Doron Braunshtein, aka Apollo Braun, whose store on Orchard Street has been selling T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with the question 'Who Killed Obama?' says the people leaving him angry messages and death threats just don't get hipster irony. See, he loves Obama, that's why he's selling products that invoke his murder!



creep-zilla!!!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on May 15, 2008, 12:04:35 PM
I was flip-flopping on whether this belongs in the creepopedia or here:

An Australian motorist has been fined for putting a seatbelt around a case of beer instead of a five-year-old passenger.

The police officer said the driver looked at him "blankly" when he was issued with a $750 (£365) fine for failing to ensure a child was wearing a seatbelt and for driving a car that was unregistered and uninsured.

Four adults were in the car, two in the front seat and two in the back, said Constable Burnett. The carton of beer, which contained 30 bottles, was strapped in between the two adults in the back.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/13/australia
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Satchmo Mask on May 16, 2008, 07:14:18 AM
Quote
Fashion designer Doron Braunshtein, aka Apollo Braun, whose store on Orchard Street has been selling T-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with the question 'Who Killed Obama?' says the people leaving him angry messages and death threats just don't get hipster irony. See, he loves Obama, that's why he's selling products that invoke his murder!

Clearly a play on the famous "Who Killed J.R.?" campaign.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Satchmo Mask on May 19, 2008, 03:02:46 AM
And on that note, I may not know who killed J.R., but I do know who killed this thread!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on May 19, 2008, 09:56:28 AM
And on that note, I may not know who killed J.R., but I do know who killed this thread!

#1, J.R. wasn't dead, people.  It's, "Who Shot J.R.?"
#2, it was Kristen.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Satchmo Mask on May 19, 2008, 12:44:46 PM
#1, I was making a subtle joke in regards to the shirt. I thought it was a botched play on the Dallas catch phrase.

#2, It was actually Maggie.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on May 19, 2008, 05:01:00 PM
#1, I was making a subtle joke in regards to the shirt. I thought it was a botched play on the Dallas catch phrase.

#2, It was actually Maggie.

That was "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" you TVadummy.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Josh on May 19, 2008, 09:46:56 PM
no pic but still pretty shady
Quote
Man charged with impersonating officer
Louisville Courier-Journal  -  May 19, 2008

A 32-year-old man was arrested this weekend after trying to coerce a woman into his car near Winter and Barret avenues by pretending he was a police officer.

Michael Myers of Louisville is charged with one count of impersonating a police officer after being arrested Saturday night.

Myers is accused of trying to convince a woman to get in his silver Crown Victoria by allegedly telling her that he would give her a ride home because she had had too much to drink, according to the arrest report.

Two firefighters noticed the woman and Myers and asked Myers if he was an officer, to which Myers allegedly said yes and gave a badge number but not his name.

Eventually, the report said the firefighters called Louisville Metro Police, suspecting that Myers was not an officer.

The report says that Myers consented to a search of his car, in which police found a silver badge that read “Official Boob Inspector, Department of Titillation.” The arresting officer noted in the report that the badge did look official on first glance.

The woman told police that Myers did threaten her with jail if she didn’t go with him.

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Stan on May 19, 2008, 10:15:14 PM
no pic but still pretty shady
Quote
Man charged with impersonating officer
Louisville Courier-Journal  -  May 19, 2008

A 32-year-old man was arrested this weekend after trying to coerce a woman into his car near Winter and Barret avenues by pretending he was a police officer.

Michael Myers of Louisville is charged with one count of impersonating a police officer after being arrested Saturday night.

Myers is accused of trying to convince a woman to get in his silver Crown Victoria by allegedly telling her that he would give her a ride home because she had had too much to drink, according to the arrest report.

Two firefighters noticed the woman and Myers and asked Myers if he was an officer, to which Myers allegedly said yes and gave a badge number but not his name.

Eventually, the report said the firefighters called Louisville Metro Police, suspecting that Myers was not an officer.

The report says that Myers consented to a search of his car, in which police found a silver badge that read “Official Boob Inspector, Department of Titillation.” The arresting officer noted in the report that the badge did look official on first glance.

The woman told police that Myers did threaten her with jail if she didn’t go with him.



 Oh Michael Myers, what are we to do with you?

(http://www.horrorphile.net/images/michael-myers11.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sarah on May 20, 2008, 09:30:19 AM
Mike seems to have lost some of his edge.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: jed on May 20, 2008, 02:03:53 PM
...The report says that Myers consented to a search of his car, in which police found a silver badge that read “Official Boob Inspector, Department of Titillation.” The arresting officer noted in the report that the badge did look official on first glance...
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on May 23, 2008, 06:01:25 PM
...The report says that Myers consented to a search of his car, in which police found a silver badge that read “Official Boob Inspector, Department of Titillation.” The arresting officer noted in the report that the badge did look official on first glance...

This is not as good a job as it may sound.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on May 27, 2008, 09:39:25 AM
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6176/hpbg521304yf6.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: todd on May 27, 2008, 10:59:18 AM
Wait, what's shady about Dana Carvey? The only scary thing in that poster is the effeminate photoshopping.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on May 27, 2008, 11:37:08 AM
Wait, what's shady about Dana Carvey?

Really?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Beth on May 27, 2008, 11:50:57 AM
I always like to picture people who are posing in the "eyes closed, i'm laughing so hard!" position standing like that for hours while the camera does multiple angles.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: todd on May 27, 2008, 12:01:08 PM
Wait, what's shady about Dana Carvey?

Really?

I haven't really seen him do anything since the Dana Carvey show. Has he done something particularly shady since then?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on May 27, 2008, 12:21:47 PM
Wait, what's shady about Dana Carvey? The only scary thing in that poster is the effeminate photoshopping.

Looks like he's trying to win the part of "Androgynous alien" in the new X-Files movie.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on May 27, 2008, 01:46:40 PM
I remember Dana Carvey, but who's that weird woman in the ad for his show?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on May 27, 2008, 06:40:18 PM
Isn't that J.T. Leroy?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on May 27, 2008, 07:25:01 PM
I think it's John Cameron Mitchell.
(http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/05/01_johncameron_lgl.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on May 28, 2008, 08:27:52 PM
I don't see it.

(http://thecia.com.au/reviews/h/images/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-5.jpg)

Oh, yeah, now I get it.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Matt on May 28, 2008, 11:36:08 PM
I don't see it.

(http://thecia.com.au/reviews/h/images/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-5.jpg)

Oh, yeah, now I get it.

Great, now I've got "Sugar Daddy" stuck in my head. Thanks, Grote.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on May 29, 2008, 04:58:45 AM
 Motivational Speaker Accused of Violent Bender. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/28/motivational.speaker.ap/index.html)
(http://www.russellsimon.com/image/russgallery/5.jpg)

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- A convicted felon who became a motivational speaker (http://www.russellsimon.com/index2.html) -- and used his life experiences to warn teens about the dangers of drugs and crime -- is accused of going on a bender, threatening to kill his girlfriend and her son, and smashing a former prison buddy in the face with a statue of John Wayne.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: TL on May 29, 2008, 09:07:49 AM
and smashing a former prison buddy in the face with a statue of John Wayne.

I suppose that's to be expected from a decent percentage of those who own statues of John Wayne...

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on May 29, 2008, 05:32:49 PM
(http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/874/20080528bushchestbumpp1ko1.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on May 30, 2008, 01:02:46 AM
Motivational Speaker Accused of Violent Bender. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/28/motivational.speaker.ap/index.html)


MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- A convicted felon who became a motivational speaker (http://www.russellsimon.com/index2.html) -- and used his life experiences to warn teens about the dangers of drugs and crime -- is accused of going on a bender, threatening to kill his girlfriend and her son, and smashing a former prison buddy in the face with a statue of John Wayne.

The heartwarming stories are the best.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on May 30, 2008, 05:08:22 PM
and smashing a former prison buddy in the face with a statue of John Wayne.

I suppose that's to be expected from a decent percentage of those us who own statues of John Wayne...


Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: chrisfoll577 on May 31, 2008, 07:26:29 AM
(http://www.nypost.com/seven/10022007/photos/psix010a.jpg)

Lou Pearlman (http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2007/11/pearlman200711?currentPage=1)

Quote
Until he fled the country in January, accused of embezzling more than $300 million, Lou Pearlman was famous as the impresario behind the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync. Turns out his investors weren't the only victims, colleagues reveal: Pearlman's passion for boy bands was also a passion for boys.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: samir on May 31, 2008, 01:05:09 PM
I'm not entirely sure if this counts as shady, or just plain odd. A woman from Sweden married the Berlin Wall.

http://www.berlinermauer.se/

Quote
I used to work in a pharmacy. Now I own a museum. My husband's job was to divide East and West Berlin. He is retired now.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sarah on May 31, 2008, 01:11:05 PM
I want to hear the Berlin Wall's side of this. 
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on June 02, 2008, 01:04:16 PM

(http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/karlrove.gif)

+

(http://unsportsmanlikecomment.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/jabba1.jpg)

=

(http://www.nypost.com/seven/10022007/photos/psix010a.jpg)

?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Josh on June 13, 2008, 05:12:23 PM
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00351/alex-kozinski_351486a.jpg)

Quote
A high-profile US obscenity trial has been put on hold after it emerged that the top federal judge hearing it had posted sexually explicit material on his personal website including footage of a semi-naked man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4122560.ece)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Miss on June 13, 2008, 07:19:49 PM
besides not living up to his potential?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Son of Dorvid on June 20, 2008, 03:17:01 AM
(http://lonestartimes.com/images/2007/05/middle_school_pregnant_teens.jpg)
 Teen Girls make Pregnancy Pact (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/20/pregnancy.pact.ap/index.html)

Gloucester must be a rough town for teenage boys.  When you're not on the boat avoiding Perfect Storms, your girlfriend's lying about being on the pill.

Proud moments, Gloucester High.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: chrisfoll577 on June 20, 2008, 07:37:41 AM

Gloucester must be a rough town for teenage boys.  When you're not on the boat avoiding Perfect Storms, your girlfriend's lying about being on the pill.

Proud moments, Gloucester High.

Let's just say since the fishing industry collapsed, Gloucester is most famous for Whale Watches, Oxycontin and teen pregnancies.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: yesno on June 20, 2008, 08:06:02 AM
I need to defend the judge there.  He had a server that he thought was private that had dumb "College Humor" style pictures-- someone actually dug them up from a cache.  Not very tasteful, but just the kind of stuff that "funny" people forward around to each other.

A lawyer who he ruled against on another matter decided to try to go after him and the LA Times obliged by characterizing what the judge had as basically a bestiality web site.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: samir on June 20, 2008, 01:34:28 PM
Funny you should mention Kozinski, here's what I read about his site...

Quote
as including a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows, a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal, images of masturbation and public and contortionist sex, a slide show striptease featuring a transsexual, a series of photos of women’s crotches as seen through snug fitting clothing or underwear, and content with themes of defecation and urination

http://www.uslaw.com/pop/what-stuff-was-on-judge-kozinskis-personal-website/?p=121
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on June 20, 2008, 01:57:41 PM
One of the fathers was "a 24-year-old homeless man."  Hoo... ray.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on June 20, 2008, 02:12:43 PM
(http://lonestartimes.com/images/2007/05/middle_school_pregnant_teens.jpg)
 Teen Girls make Pregnancy Pact (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/20/pregnancy.pact.ap/index.html)

Gloucester must be a rough town for teenage boys.  When you're not on the boat avoiding Perfect Storms, your girlfriend's lying about being on the pill.

Proud moments, Gloucester High.

He said the girls are generally "girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life."


there you go...nothing raising another human being for eighteen years can't solve
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: yesno on June 20, 2008, 02:17:09 PM
Funny you should mention Kozinski, here's what I read about his site...

Quote
as including a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows, a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal, images of masturbation and public and contortionist sex, a slide show striptease featuring a transsexual, a series of photos of women’s crotches as seen through snug fitting clothing or underwear, and content with themes of defecation and urination

http://www.uslaw.com/pop/what-stuff-was-on-judge-kozinskis-personal-website/?p=121

Again, though, it's just the junk you'd find on fark.com or something.  Stuff I stopped finding funny sometime in the 1940s, but nothing that should threaten his job.  Especially given that he's been a friend of the First Amendment anyway, so it's not like there's any flavor of hypocrisy.  He is saying that some of it was his son's, which is kind of a lame thing if not true.

I do have to say that Kozinski is one of those judges that people with a really, really limited sense of "crazy" have called "crazy," "wacky," etc.  
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Josh on June 20, 2008, 02:57:06 PM
This isn't Hypocrite's Corner or the Evil Jerk Lounge. Dude's shady, that's all.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sarah on June 20, 2008, 03:54:32 PM
Let's just say since the fishing industry collapsed, Gloucester is most famous for Whale Watches, Oxycontin and teen pregnancies.

Sounds oh so familiar.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: yesno on June 20, 2008, 05:58:34 PM
This isn't Hypocrite's Corner or the Evil Jerk Lounge. Dude's shady, that's all.

Good point.  Being into frat boy humor when you're in your sixties (?) is kind of shady by itself.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on June 21, 2008, 09:22:41 AM
twofer saturday

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/2596977323_9f35e31754_o.jpg)
Learyzilla


(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3930/18106400id2.jpg)
Vince from Shamwow
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Regular Joe on June 21, 2008, 09:33:32 AM
Vince must be the albatross that stifles the true potential of the ShamWow. As far as I see it that thing is a miracle and it should by all rights be a household name, like bandaids.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: TacoSmith on June 21, 2008, 08:32:24 PM
twofer saturday

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/2596977323_9f35e31754_o.jpg)
Learyzilla
Ugh. I've seen that picture before and it makes my skin crawl. I guess maybe that's the idea or something but I SHAN'T be watching the show.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Miss on June 22, 2008, 10:02:36 PM
Learyzilla is ALMOST as terrifying and putrid as actual Leary.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on June 27, 2008, 04:26:18 PM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2616837044_00a7825b3b_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on June 27, 2008, 05:48:02 PM
ack!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Matt on June 27, 2008, 05:54:01 PM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2616837044_00a7825b3b_o.jpg)

That is the most erotic thing I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on June 30, 2008, 07:23:07 PM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2616837044_00a7825b3b_o.jpg)

That is the most erotic thing I've ever seen.

I recognize Telly Savalas, but who's the giant with him?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: erika on June 30, 2008, 08:12:18 PM
(http://boortz.com/images/funny/redneck_pics_tattoo2.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Laurie on June 30, 2008, 09:59:52 PM
Fox News and Geraldo Rivera keep it classy by showing footage of a top model's corpse (http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=e3cc35cd-2d1b-4c84-951f-72b0e8de4776).
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on July 05, 2008, 09:40:02 AM
(http://boortz.com/images/funny/redneck_pics_tattoo2.jpg)

This was not very well-planned.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Laurie on July 05, 2008, 09:45:40 AM
(http://boortz.com/images/funny/redneck_pics_tattoo2.jpg)

This was not very well-planned.

It's gotta be fake because

a) It would look super stretched and distorted because she's knocked up. This lady I know had big cats tattooed on her stomach as well as a pubic tattoo. The cats' arms looked all 'roided up. It was funny.

b) It's super risky getting a tattoo while pregnant. You have to sign a waiver and everything.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on July 05, 2008, 09:56:33 AM
I assumed it was drawn on the day the picture was taken. That's how I did the picture of Larry Harmon on my ample belly.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on July 05, 2008, 10:00:35 AM
(http://boortz.com/images/funny/redneck_pics_tattoo2.jpg)

This was not very well-planned.

It's gotta be fake because

a) It would look super stretched and distorted because she's knocked up. This lady I know had big cats tattooed on her stomach as well as a pubic tattoo. The cats' arms looked all 'roided up. It was funny.

b) It's super risky getting a tattoo while pregnant. You have to sign a waiver and everything.

Yeah, it also looks like it could be body-paint.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on July 09, 2008, 10:35:48 PM
Geraldo has always terrified me, but he's really let himself go

(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/foxnews-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: kray on July 09, 2008, 11:10:34 PM
(http://www.seenon.com/blog/uploads/hasselhoff.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on July 10, 2008, 02:40:01 PM
Hey, I have an autographed picture of David Hasselhoff!!! It's hanging my playroom.

In other shady news, guess who was in Knoxville last week?

















(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/waitsli5.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Son of Dorvid on July 16, 2008, 02:46:19 PM
(http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/news/080728/andy_dick.jpg)

 Andy Dick should be kept in some kind of vault.  (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212849,00.html)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: kray on July 16, 2008, 04:23:35 PM
(http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/news/080728/andy_dick.jpg)

 Andy Dick should be kept in some kind of vault.  (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212849,00.html)

word. he has a buttcrack chin, it's a sign.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Matt on July 16, 2008, 04:24:17 PM
(http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/news/080728/andy_dick.jpg)

 Andy Dick should be kept in some kind of vault.  (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212849,00.html)

But first he should play the lead in a Speed Levitch biopic.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Chris L on July 16, 2008, 06:43:28 PM
Andy Dick should be kept in some kind of vault the Dick Vault.

Looks like he just got back from the Black Lodge.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Son of Dorvid on July 21, 2008, 09:48:02 PM
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/CRIME/07/21/email.snoop.ap/art.larry.alycia.jpg)

 Philly Newscaster Larry Mendte - Shady Character  (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/21/email.snoop.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on July 22, 2008, 02:59:02 AM
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/CRIME/07/21/email.snoop.ap/art.larry.alycia.jpg)

 Philly Newscaster Larry Mendte - Shady Character  (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/21/email.snoop.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)

PhilaDummy!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Tim K in DC on July 27, 2008, 04:45:09 PM
(http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/news/080728/andy_dick.jpg)

 Andy Dick should be kept in some kind of vault.  (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212849,00.html)

But first he should play the lead in a Speed Levitch biopic.

I think Dustin Hoffman could play the lead in the Andy Dick biopic.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on August 01, 2008, 09:49:33 AM
Not for the sensitive!

This transcends "shady," but it's so insane I'm compelled to post it. Apparently the victim was a stranger to the attacker. It was a completely random attack:

Quote
A 40-year-old man is in custody in Manitoba after a young man was stabbed — and, witnesses said, decapitated — aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through the province overnight.

[...]

When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle, Caton said.

"While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," said Caton.

"While we were waiting on the side of the road, [the attacker] was taunting the police with the head in his hand," said Caton.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/07/31/greyhound-transcanada.html
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: <<<<< on August 01, 2008, 01:43:49 PM
Quote
Tim Sen, president of Trauma Management Group, which offers counselling and post-traumatic support in Ontario, said it will take time for bus passengers to come to terms with what they've seen.

Holy cow, I'm traumatized just reading about it.     :o
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on August 28, 2008, 10:06:20 AM
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/24/us/24evolution2.span.jpg)

From the NY Times' profile of a teacher's travails introducing evolution curriculum in Florida (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html?sq=biology%20florida%20evolution&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all). Bryce Haas (center), fundamentalist Christian and evolution naysayer, says “I can see something [...] I can see that there’s no way I came from an ape.”

Hmmm....
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on August 28, 2008, 10:34:10 AM
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/24/us/24evolution2.span.jpg)

From the NY Times' profile of a teacher's travails introducing evolution curriculum in Florida (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html?sq=biology%20florida%20evolution&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all). Bryce Haas (center), fundamentalist Christian and evolution naysayer, says “I can see something [...] I can see that there’s no way I came from an ape.”

Hmmm....

May be the best post I have ever seen on the FOT forum.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Spoony on August 28, 2008, 02:57:41 PM
Those two look like they evolved from mashed potatoes.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on August 28, 2008, 04:46:04 PM
People don't understand that most of Florida is NOT Miami + Disneyland.  It's Alabama + Myrtle Beach.  (Sorry Florida FOTs!)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on August 28, 2008, 07:17:07 PM
I'd say they evolved from big mounds of cheez whiz that were blessed by Zeus.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: todd on August 28, 2008, 07:40:24 PM
??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z243/satirev1/24evolution2span.jpg)(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z243/satirev1/DonkeyKong001.jpg)

Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Dan B on August 29, 2008, 07:38:39 PM
(http://cmsimg.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=D2&Date=20080828&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=80828006&Ref=AR&Profile=1001&MaxW=550&MaxH=650&title=0)
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/NEWS/80828006
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Gilly on August 29, 2008, 10:20:30 PM
I had a teacher in my high school who taught an outdoor activity class and every year has a reunion for old students of the class (only 40 seniors get in the class every year). There is a ton of drinking which I guess supposedly he doesn't partake in but there are rumors that he's slept with a couple of the girls, all legal age and sober, but definitely his old students. Kind of tubular in my opinion, but most of the people I know who go seem to think it's fine. He still teaches at the school too so the district must think it's ok as well or don't know the full details.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on August 29, 2008, 11:41:28 PM
I had a teacher in my high school who taught an outdoor activity class and every year has a reunion for old students of the class (only 40 seniors get in the class every year). There is a ton of drinking which I guess supposedly he doesn't partake in but there are rumors that he's slept with a couple of the girls, all legal age and sober, but definitely his old students. Kind of tubular in my opinion, but most of the people I know who go seem to think it's fine. He still teaches at the school too so the district must think it's ok as well or don't know the full details.

We're not supposed to sleep with our students? Where do YOU live?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: AllisonLeGnome on August 30, 2008, 12:58:25 AM
I've been hearing a lot of everyone's awful leaving for college breakup stories- someone's friend recently found out that his girlfriend cheated on him with her history teacher the week after graduation.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on August 31, 2008, 01:00:06 PM
I had a teacher in my high school who taught an outdoor activity class and every year has a reunion for old students of the class (only 40 seniors get in the class every year). There is a ton of drinking which I guess supposedly he doesn't partake in but there are rumors that he's slept with a couple of the girls, all legal age and sober, but definitely his old students. Kind of tubular in my opinion, but most of the people I know who go seem to think it's fine. He still teaches at the school too so the district must think it's ok as well or don't know the full details.

We're not supposed to sleep with our students? Where do YOU live?

Oh, Dave.  Though I guess if I wasn't posting under my actual name I could make jokes like this too.

I actually couldn't even imagine stuff like this.  The only really hairy situation I've been in was when I had a student who was doing porn, in like 2005 I think, but that was mostly just awkward for me.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on August 31, 2008, 02:41:05 PM
I had a teacher in my high school who taught an outdoor activity class and every year has a reunion for old students of the class (only 40 seniors get in the class every year). There is a ton of drinking which I guess supposedly he doesn't partake in but there are rumors that he's slept with a couple of the girls, all legal age and sober, but definitely his old students. Kind of tubular in my opinion, but most of the people I know who go seem to think it's fine. He still teaches at the school too so the district must think it's ok as well or don't know the full details.

We're not supposed to sleep with our students? Where do YOU live?

Oh, Dave.  Though I guess if I wasn't posting under my actual name I could make jokes like this too.

I actually couldn't even imagine stuff like this.  The only really hairy situation I've been in was when I had a student who was doing porn, in like 2005 I think, but that was mostly just awkward for me.

Oh come on, I was just playing. What with all the cousins that I have within driving distance, who has time for students?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on August 31, 2008, 03:46:56 PM
Now that's more like it.






(I know you were just kidding Dave)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on September 01, 2008, 10:57:48 AM
(http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20080801/450_Kenk_080801.jpg)

Igor Kenk, owner of a shady bike shop in Toronto has been charged with stealing more than 3200 bikes (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/08/01/igor-kenk-wins-bail-in-bike-thefts.aspx). That puts him in the running for biggest bike thief EVAH! Also, he would "buy" stolen bikes with crack.

For the decade or so that I lived in Toronto, everyone knew that if your bike was stolen, chances were pretty good that you could buy it back from Igor.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: emma on September 01, 2008, 12:38:10 PM
(http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20080801/450_Kenk_080801.jpg)

Igor Kenk, owner of a shady bike shop in Toronto has been charged with stealing more than 3200 bikes (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/08/01/igor-kenk-wins-bail-in-bike-thefts.aspx). That puts him in the running for biggest bike thief EVAH! Also, he would "buy" stolen bikes with crack.

For the decade or so that I lived in Toronto, everyone knew that if your bike was stolen, chances were pretty good that you could buy it back from Igor.

Oh man I have so many good Igor stories.

The thing about him is that he's a neighbourhood legend in good ways and bad ways - of course, everyone hates him because he would steal your bike and if you caught him out on it, he'd threaten you with physical violence or chase you out of his creepy cave of a store, but there are some people who still swear he's a good guy. I've had friends who have had him fix their bikes for free, just because he noticed there was something wrong when they rode past him on the street.

Of course, then they would lock up their newly fixed bikes a week later and have them stolen, but all of those people still think he's great.

My stepmom lived right across from Trinity Bellwoods park before Queen West was hipster central, and when Igor first moved into the neighbourhood and was just known as a relentlessly charming eccentric (as opposed to a crazed, hoarding, crack-addict criminal bike-thief mastermind) he kept his bike "collection" in the basement of her house. Eventually it took up so much space that she got suspicious and asked him to move it out, but for like twenty years after that she enjoyed the rare privilege of locking her bike up all over Queen and never ever having it stolen.

Also, I had a garage sale a week before I left for New York, and he gave me $35 for a stack of 10 CDs without looking at the titles or artists.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: samir on November 03, 2008, 08:07:55 PM
Shady? Or just dumb? I think it's a Family Guy reference, though I may be wrong.

Quote
A teenager has changed his birth name by deed poll to incorporate several comic book superheroes.

George Garratt from Glastonbury has become Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine The Hulk And The Flash Combined.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/7707098.stm
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Wes on November 03, 2008, 08:16:05 PM
Shady? Or just dumb? I think it's a Family Guy reference, though I may be wrong.

Quote
A teenager has changed his birth name by deed poll to incorporate several comic book superheroes.

George Garratt from Glastonbury has become Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine The Hulk And The Flash Combined.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/7707098.stm

Wow, that's...stupid.

Wolverine's not fast.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Omar on November 03, 2008, 09:33:34 PM
Shady? Or just dumb? I think it's a Family Guy reference, though I may be wrong.

Quote
A teenager has changed his birth name by deed poll to incorporate several comic book superheroes.

George Garratt from Glastonbury has become Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine The Hulk And The Flash Combined.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/7707098.stm

It doesn't top Bryce's proposed name for his first-born: Kreutzmann Phil Lesh Mountain Girl Garcia Brent Mydland Pigpen Keith Godchaux Prefontaine.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Come on, Jason on December 23, 2008, 12:03:38 AM
(http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/viktorbout.jpg)

If your nickname is the Merchant of Death (http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=51953883059&h=9QOLn&u=D8dDm), you need to be in this thread.


Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on December 23, 2008, 12:57:17 AM
I had a teacher in my high school who taught an outdoor activity class and every year has a reunion for old students of the class (only 40 seniors get in the class every year). There is a ton of drinking which I guess supposedly he doesn't partake in but there are rumors that he's slept with a couple of the girls, all legal age and sober, but definitely his old students. Kind of tubular in my opinion, but most of the people I know who go seem to think it's fine. He still teaches at the school too so the district must think it's ok as well or don't know the full details.

We're not supposed to sleep with our students? Where do YOU live?


Oh, Dave.  Though I guess if I wasn't posting under my actual name I could make jokes like this too.

I actually couldn't even imagine stuff like this.  The only really hairy situation I've been in was when I had a student who was doing porn, in like 2005 I think, but that was mostly just awkward for me.


Sure I"m months and months late in this response, but...

sleeping with students at the college I work at is "highly discouraged" but not actually forbidden, so yeah, every few years someone has a messy divorce, someone else graduates or decides to not return to school, and then "Hey wow!  Didn't he used to be her teacher?"
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: samir on December 27, 2008, 11:14:09 PM
Phila. man shot because family talked during movie (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081226_Phila__man_shot_because_family_talked_during_movie.html)

A South Philadelphia man enraged because a father and son were talking during a Christmas showing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took care of the situation when he pulled a .380-caliber gun and shot the father, police said.

(http://media.philly.com/images/122608_cialella_300.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: WavyGravy on December 27, 2008, 11:32:30 PM
My father and I got some hard looks from my uncle when we were talking about Benjamin Button on Christmas. 
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Come on, Jason on December 28, 2008, 01:33:17 AM
(http://petermthomas.com/images/SausagePancake.jpg)

Food executives.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sarah on December 28, 2008, 06:49:24 AM
I want to hear what FOT think of Benjamin Button.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Wes on December 28, 2008, 01:49:53 PM
Phila. man shot because family talked during movie (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081226_Phila__man_shot_because_family_talked_during_movie.html)

A South Philadelphia man enraged because a father and son were talking during a Christmas showing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took care of the situation when he pulled a .380-caliber gun and shot the father, police said.

(http://media.philly.com/images/122608_cialella_300.jpg)

This is the movie theater I frequent. There was almost a riot there once when some guy really didn't like 28 Days Later. I disagreed with him, I enjoyed it, but he was pretty adamant about it, so I didn't say anything.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on January 20, 2009, 03:01:57 PM
the makers of ...
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0akCeD4fme6lX/340x.jpg)
fucking hitler wine





(http://s49.radikal.ru/i126/0901/3d/08ec72a50500.jpg)
:does not approve:
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on January 20, 2009, 11:06:46 PM
Stan, I'm really sorry to hear that DYFS is all up in your grill.  You should be able to name your kids whatever you want!

(http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/01/14/PH2009011403649.jpg)

Just kidding you're better-looking than that guy
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sploops on January 23, 2009, 03:27:48 PM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/3220257305_2cc3858244_o.jpg)



(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3346/3220257283_cf99770bd0_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Stan on January 26, 2009, 02:40:45 PM
Stan, I'm really sorry to hear that DYFS is all up in your grill.  You should be able to name your kids whatever you want!

(http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/01/14/PH2009011403649.jpg)

Just kidding you're better-looking than that guy

 That's why I grew a beard, Lamont. To cover the neck tattoo.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on February 02, 2009, 03:08:11 PM
(http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00007/F_200701_January11ed__7606a.jpg)

David Gest. I know he's last decade's news, but we were discussing him at work, and I thought of this thread right away.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on March 13, 2009, 10:05:20 AM
I really hope to never hear about this kid (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/fashion/08conserve.html?_r=1&sq=jonathan%20conservative%20fourteen%20cpac&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1236952825-9fDxTr0YOH5WihzrLxEdiA) again.

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/08/fashion/08convservative_600.jpg)

He's fourteen! It doesn't matter what he thinks about ANYTHING.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on March 13, 2009, 10:22:42 AM
Also, he looks more like 10 than 14.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on March 13, 2009, 11:37:06 AM
Somebody's asking for a wedgie!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on March 13, 2009, 05:06:07 PM
He should get together with that brat who is leading the campaign against swearing. I bet they'd LOVE each other.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: emma on March 13, 2009, 06:46:40 PM
An evening at Spike's place would set him right.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: A.M. Thomas on March 14, 2009, 02:43:20 AM
I really hope to never hear about this kid (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/fashion/08conserve.html?_r=1&sq=jonathan%20conservative%20fourteen%20cpac&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1236952825-9fDxTr0YOH5WihzrLxEdiA) again.

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/08/fashion/08convservative_600.jpg)

He's fourteen! It doesn't matter what he thinks about ANYTHING.

I'm a big fan.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: DoodleJump! on March 14, 2009, 03:42:10 PM
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oxVwvcc-iM[/youtube]
 
This guy gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Regular Joe on March 15, 2009, 10:10:50 AM
This guy gives me the heebie-jeebies.

It's not until about 8:25 that the full horror is revealed, which is about 5 minutes after it appears unable to be any more disturbing.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on March 15, 2009, 10:35:50 AM
The mayor of San Francisco, I suppose he's an OK guy, but he seems shady.

(http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ocean-power-3.jpg)

I think it's the Gordon Gekko hair that's doin' it.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Come on, Jason on March 15, 2009, 12:30:25 PM
Well, he was banging his best friend/campaign manager's wife, so I don't know how OK a guy he is.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on March 15, 2009, 12:49:40 PM
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oxVwvcc-iM[/youtube]
 
This guy gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Heaven, as formulated by David Lynch
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on March 15, 2009, 02:19:32 PM
Well, he was banging his best friend/campaign manager's wife, so I don't know how OK a guy he is.

I knew it!

I guess I'm pretty good at judging character from hair after all.

This really validates me.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Clint on March 15, 2009, 07:01:02 PM
This guy gives me the heebie-jeebies.

It's not until about 8:25 that the full horror is revealed, which is about 5 minutes after it appears unable to be any more disturbing.

It's the staring into the camera that bothers me. It's like he's making a head modeled on me. I suspect that by watching this video he steals your soul and keeps it on his shelf in Play Doh form along with the souls of all the others that have watched his video.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: scratchbomb on March 15, 2009, 10:29:08 PM
The mayor of San Francisco, I suppose he's an OK guy, but he seems shady.

(http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ocean-power-3.jpg)

I think it's the Gordon Gekko hair that's doin' it.

Got sort of a Patrick Bateman quality to him, too.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Wes on March 16, 2009, 09:48:55 AM
The mayor of San Francisco, I suppose he's an OK guy, but he seems shady.

(http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ocean-power-3.jpg)

I think it's the Gordon Gekko hair that's doin' it.

Got sort of a Patrick Bateman quality to him, too.

How tall is this guy? At least 800 feet, right?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: ben on March 16, 2009, 08:02:34 PM
The mayor of San Francisco, I suppose he's an OK guy, but he seems shady.

(http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ocean-power-3.jpg)

I think it's the Gordon Gekko hair that's doin' it.

Got sort of a Patrick Bateman quality to him, too.

How tall is this guy? At least 800 feet, right?

If he is, I wonder how many buttons would be appropriate for his suit.  Is he following the button rule?  I forgot how that went.  Is his cousin Joanna Newsom a giant too?
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on March 16, 2009, 09:14:52 PM
The mayor of San Francisco, I suppose he's an OK guy, but he seems shady.

(http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ocean-power-3.jpg)

I think it's the Gordon Gekko hair that's doin' it.

Got sort of a Patrick Bateman quality to him, too.

How tall is this guy? At least 800 feet, right?

If he is, I wonder how many buttons would be appropriate for his suit.  Is he following the button rule?  I forgot how that went.  Is his cousin Joanna Newsom a giant too?

Ys!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Big Plastic Head on March 16, 2009, 10:38:54 PM
The mayor of San Francisco, I suppose he's an OK guy, but he seems shady.

(http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ocean-power-3.jpg)

I think it's the Gordon Gekko hair that's doin' it.

Got sort of a Patrick Bateman quality to him, too.

How tall is this guy? At least 800 feet, right?

If he is, I wonder how many buttons would be appropriate for his suit.  Is he following the button rule?  I forgot how that went.  Is his cousin Joanna Newsom a giant too?

Ys!

First off: Dave...that was tops!

Second, I one time walked into the courthouse in SF right behind him. He was with a bunch of other suits and a) he was taller than all of them and b) DAMN if he can't hang a suit! Super duper tailored and it paid off.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Spoony on March 23, 2009, 01:52:55 PM
He looks like Christian Bale from American Psycho.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: DoodleJump! on March 23, 2009, 05:41:21 PM
He looks like Christian Bale from American Psycho.
EXACTLY what I thought. I was afraid it was too obvious to write up.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on March 23, 2009, 06:12:20 PM
He looks like someone from a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Spoony on March 24, 2009, 05:45:54 PM
He looks like the kind of guy who's tear me A New One for trespassing on his movie set.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 28, 2009, 11:24:56 AM
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/03/Picture_7_10.png)

The Sham Wow Guy

http://gawker.com/5187540/shamwow-guy-beats-up-cannibal-hooker (http://gawker.com/5187540/shamwow-guy-beats-up-cannibal-hooker)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on March 28, 2009, 11:45:47 AM
I thought that was McNulty for a minute.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on March 28, 2009, 01:06:50 PM
I thought that was McNulty for a minute.

Isn't it?



Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Come on, Jason on March 28, 2009, 01:39:32 PM
You get the cell...  the weights...  the armed guards...
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on March 28, 2009, 05:02:34 PM
It's Moe from the Simpsons....

They used to call me Kid Handsome...then Kid Ugly...then Kid Gruesome.



(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/03/Picture_7_10.png)

The Sham Wow Guy

http://gawker.com/5187540/shamwow-guy-beats-up-cannibal-hooker (http://gawker.com/5187540/shamwow-guy-beats-up-cannibal-hooker)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Chris L on March 28, 2009, 06:08:15 PM
I thought it was a shot of Benicio Del Toro in a new Huey Lewis biopic.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 28, 2009, 06:27:26 PM
I thought it was Del Toro in the Three Stooges movie -- I hear it's a Watchmen-style ultra-realistic take.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: dave from knoxville on March 29, 2009, 07:47:12 AM
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/03/Picture_7_10.png)

The Sham Wow Guy



It's the love child of Hugh Laurie and Thomas Haden Church.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: samir on April 01, 2009, 01:51:09 PM
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Kid Rock has announced that he has acquired the naming rights to the home field of American League baseball team the Detroit Tigers.

The Michigan native purchased the naming rights for an undisclosed sum, which will change the name from Comerica Park to Kid Rock Field.

He has also announced that he has teamed up with the Michigan Brewing Company to create a new line of beer, which will be the official beer of the Detroit Tigers.


"This has been a dream of mine for a long time, and with the banks in trouble it seemed like the right time for me to reach out to the fine people at Comerica Bank," Kid Rock said in a statement. "I've never been more excited for opening day, and I'm proud to be able to add my name to the legacy of my favorite baseball team."

http://www.nme.com/news/kid-rock/43836
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on April 01, 2009, 01:54:56 PM
Man, that guy is a jerk. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_fool)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: samir on April 01, 2009, 02:20:19 PM
i need to stop reading shit.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on May 29, 2009, 05:13:50 PM

(http://stupidcelebrities.net/wp-content/phil-spector_guilty.jpg)

Where Phil Spector's going, the walls are not made of sound. [rimshot] [silence] Is this thing on?






I'm so proud of this terrible joke that it's my facebook update too.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on May 29, 2009, 10:36:59 PM

(http://stupidcelebrities.net/wp-content/phil-spector_guilty.jpg)

Where Phil Spector's going, the walls are not made of sound. [rimshot] [silence] Is this thing on?

I would like to see a special revival of Oz featuring a Spector subplot. Ghostface Killah guests as a guy who makes fun of the hair until he snaps.





I'm so proud of this terrible joke that it's my facebook update too.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on May 29, 2009, 11:08:10 PM

I would like to see a special revival of Oz featuring a Spector subplot. Ghostface Killah guests as a guy who makes fun of the hair until he snaps.



It worked for Peter Criss!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on June 05, 2009, 09:38:25 AM
A bargain of a room in NYC. Interest in mountain biking is a plus:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/roo/1205399784.html
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Pidgeon on June 05, 2009, 10:18:49 PM
(http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/vince-offer-not-being-creepy-fail.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on June 17, 2009, 12:55:00 PM
(http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2003_Spy_Kids_3-D:_Game_Over/2003_spy_kids_3_d_game_over_011.jpg)

Sylvester Stallone in "Spy Kids 3D: Game Over." 
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: kiemzi on August 21, 2009, 06:08:03 PM
Vince Shamwow's best/creepiest lines are actually in the "Slap-Chop" commercial. First, there's "Stop have a boring tuna, stop having a boring life." Then there's the whimsically creepy, "Linguini, martini, frettucini (sic), bikini."
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Gilly on August 25, 2009, 01:20:47 PM
Guys, we’re gonna make America skinny again…
One slap at a time

and of course....

You’re gonna love my nuts
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: samir on September 14, 2009, 02:52:56 PM
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/104288/thumbs/s-JULIUS-ANDREAS-GIMLI-ARN-MACGYVER-CHEWBACKA-HIGHLA-large.jpg)

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According to Norwegian site VG Nett, bus driver Andreas Jankov has formally changed his name to Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov. "I wanted to show that it is possible to be serious and at the same time take the name you like," said the film enthusiast. "I wanted to see how far I could take it with respect to the number of names. I started thinking about this three years ago and it was approved in January this year." Apparently, he's had his passport and bank card reissued, but the name was too long so he dropped "Highlander."

Not strictly shady, I suppose, but certainly bee-zarrrr.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Trotskie on September 14, 2009, 05:19:02 PM

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According to Norwegian site VG Nett, bus driver Andreas Jankov has formally changed his name to Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov.


I think he misspelled "Chewbacca".
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on September 14, 2009, 06:15:14 PM
Which is ironic, since that's probably what he most looks like out of all those names.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Barry Egan on September 16, 2009, 11:36:44 PM
Or maybe he's a big Patton Oswalt fan, and "Chewbacka" is a reference to Patton's great Nick Nolte-as-Han Solo bit.

Point is, it's possible this guy isn't nuts. 
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Barry Egan on December 12, 2009, 11:18:27 PM
(http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/1207/21889376_640X480.jpg)

"Hey, you forgot to not do that."  - Todd Barry

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21949720/detail.html (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21949720/detail.html)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on December 13, 2009, 10:40:29 AM
He's been subconsciously trying to change from Andrew into Alexander.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Barry Egan on February 01, 2010, 04:40:29 PM
(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/t1larg.jpg)
Inventor Unveils $7000 Talking Sex Robot (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html)

I figured I shouldn't be the only one having nightmares about this picture.  You're welcome!
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: buffcoat on February 01, 2010, 05:23:46 PM
That article is a cornucopia of bad:


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"She doesn't vacuum or cook, but she does almost everything else," said her inventor, Douglas Hines, who unveiled Roxxxy last month at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada."


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In a recent monologue, Jay Leno expressed amazement that a sex robot could carry on lifelike conversations and express realistic emotions.

"Luckily, guys," he joked, "there's a button that turns that off."


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Curious conventioneers packed Hines' AEE booth last month in Las Vegas, asking questions and stroking Roxxxy's skin as she sat on a couch in a black negligee.


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She cannot move on her own but can be contorted into almost any natural position.

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Roxxxy also has sensors in her hands and genital areas -- yes, she is anatomically correct -- that will trigger vocal responses from her when touched. She even shudders to simulate orgasm.

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She even snores." (The snoring feature can be turned off, he says.)

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His customer base? Shy, awkward or older men who "have trouble meeting girls," he says.




And, finally, this poor deluded lady:

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Is this a viable product? Yes," said Sherri Shaulis, an editor at Adult Video News, a trade magazine for the pornographic industry. "There's a market for it. Granted, it's a very small market."




Small in some important ways, madam, but not a small market overall.




NB: I forgot to mention the picture.  I mean both subjects of it.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: fonpr on February 01, 2010, 05:43:14 PM
I tried to warn you.

Sighed,

Cassandra
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: wood and iron on February 01, 2010, 10:46:13 PM
(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/t1larg.jpg)
Inventor Unveils $7000 Talking Sex Robot (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html)

I figured I shouldn't be the only one having nightmares about this picture.  You're welcome!

That looks Catherine Tate and yikes.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Bryan on February 02, 2010, 08:56:17 AM
I made the mistake of browsing the comments.

Quote from: lenavarfon
Awesome prank: Put a black dong on her at the factory and install a video camera in the robot's face to record the reaction of the first encounter with the customer. That would make a priceless video.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Sarah on February 03, 2010, 12:26:48 AM
That's David Tennant without his Who makeup.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on April 20, 2010, 07:20:12 PM
Guru's "friend and producer" Solar. What a creep.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/20/rapper.guru.dies/
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: waltkellysghost on April 20, 2010, 07:34:17 PM
(http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/0411/15851313.jpg)


Parents Fight Over Which Gang Toddler Should Join (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15851207/detail.html?taf=den#)
Police: Mother A Crip, Father A Westside Baller

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.
On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.
After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home.
 
His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.
"They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would 'claim,'" Sandoval said.
Manzanares was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, and domestic violence. He was transported to the Adams County Detention Facility.
On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentenced to a year of probation. The misdemeanor harassment charge was dropped.



Bad parents want their kids to be just like them.

Good parents want their kids to be better than them.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: waltkellysghost on April 20, 2010, 07:38:21 PM
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/104288/thumbs/s-JULIUS-ANDREAS-GIMLI-ARN-MACGYVER-CHEWBACKA-HIGHLA-large.jpg)

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According to Norwegian site VG Nett, bus driver Andreas Jankov has formally changed his name to Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov. "I wanted to show that it is possible to be serious and at the same time take the name you like," said the film enthusiast. "I wanted to see how far I could take it with respect to the number of names. I started thinking about this three years ago and it was approved in January this year." Apparently, he's had his passport and bank card reissued, but the name was too long so he dropped "Highlander."

Not strictly shady, I suppose, but certainly bee-zarrrr.

I love to see people living their dreams. Even if the dream doesn't make sense.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Chris L on April 20, 2010, 07:49:29 PM
Guru's "friend and producer" Solar. What a creep.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/20/rapper.guru.dies/

I read about this situation this morning and it makes his death even sadder.  I actually wondered at first if this guy was MC Solaar (nope).
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Martin on April 20, 2010, 08:05:32 PM
As a big fan of 80s groove/disco label Sound of Los Angeles Records (SOLAR) I was also confused at first.
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: slipperyslope on April 21, 2010, 08:36:31 AM
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00981/bill-gates_981290c.jpg)
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on April 21, 2010, 08:09:38 PM
Ah, the guy's out there doing some good with his billions...
Title: Re: Shady Characters
Post by: waltkellysghost on July 08, 2010, 12:41:25 AM
(http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/1207/21889376_640X480.jpg)

"Hey, you forgot to not do that."  - Todd Barry

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21949720/detail.html (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21949720/detail.html)
For a second I confused his lip rings for fangs.